THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1922 _Novels_ THE LAST TYCOON (Unfinished) _With a foreword by Edmund Wilson and notes by the author_ TENDER IS THE NIGHT THE GREAT GATSBY THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED THIS SIDE OF PARADISE _Stories_ THE PAT HOBBY STORIES _With an introduction by Arnold Gingrich_ TAPS AT REVEILLE SIX TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE AND OTHER STORIES _With an introduction by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan_ FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS _With an introduction by Arthur Mizener_ THE STORIES OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD _A selection of 28 stories, with an introduction by Malcolm Cowley_ _Stories and Essays_ AFTERNOON OF AN AUTHOR _With an introduction and notes by Arthur Mizener_ THE FITZGERALD READER: A Selection _Edited and with an introduction by Arthur Mizener_ The victor belongs to the spoils. --ANTHONY PATCH TO SHANE LESLIE, GEORGE JEAN NATHAN AND MAXWELL PERKINS IN APPRECIATION OF MUCH LITERARY HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT CONTENTS BOOK ONE I. ANTHONY PATCH II. PORTRAIT OF A SIREN III. THE CONNOISSEUR OF KISSES BOOK TWO I. THE RADIANT HOUR II. SYMPOSIUM III. THE BROKEN LUTE BOOK THREE I. A MATTER OF CIVILIZATION II. A MATTER OF AESTHETICS III. NO MATTER! BOOK ONE CHAPTER I ANTHONY PATCH In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him. Irony was the final polish of the shoe, the ultimate dab of the clothes-brush, a sort of intellectual "There!"--yet at the brink of this story he has as yet gone no further than the conscious stage. As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clean pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows. This was his healthy state and it made him cheerful, pleasant, and very attractive to intelligent men and to all women. In this state he considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality. Until the time came for this effort he would be Anthony Patch--not a portrait of a man but a distinct and dynamic personality, opinionated, contemptuous, functioning from within outward--a man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave. A WORTHY MAN AND HIS GIFTED SON